Top 25
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
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Chester Caddas
1972-1981 • Colorado State, Pacific
2 schools coached, anchored by Pacific.
Chester Caddas's coaching record is 38-44-2, highlighted by seasons at Pacific from 1972 to 1981.
Chester Caddas coached 8 seasons, won 46.4%, and posted an average SRS of -8.3. Best season: 1977 Pacific. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 38-44-2
- Career win rate
- 46.4%
- Average SRS
- -8.3
- Peak SRS
- 1.5
Career Dossier
One glance at the full arc.
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
- Seasons coached
- 8
- Career span
- 10 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 33.1
Primary school anchor
Pacific
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 38.6.
Quick Answers
Records fans search first
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
- Overall record
- 38-44-2
- Pacific record
- 38-38-2
- Full-season record
- 38-38-2
- Partial-season record
- 0-6
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-3
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
84 countable games, 46.4% win rate.
7 countable seasons at Pacific.
7 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
3 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
Record definition and data status
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.
Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Nov 28, 1981. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
Career Arc
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.
Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.
Chester Caddas
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Chester Caddas: 1981 Colorado State
1972Actual season year • SRS range -23.5 to 1.51981
Active comparison point
Chester Caddas • 1977
1977 Pacific
Best seasonBiggest improvement6-5 • SRS 1.5 • SP Overall -2.1
Win %
54.5%
YoY SRS
+25.0
SP Off / Def
18.9 / 21.0
Finish
Unranked
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Ranked opponent record
Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.
Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.
Top 10
0-3
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-0
- Games
- 0
- Win rate
- —
View ranked game results5
| 1975 Regular Week 11 | Pacific | Arizona State | #8 | L14-55 |
| 1975 Regular Week 9 | Pacific | San Diego State | #18 | L13-31 |
| 1975 Regular Week 3 | Pacific | Arizona | #17 | L0-16 |
| 1972 Regular Week 2 | Pacific | LSU | #9 | L13-31 |
| 1972 Regular Week 1 | Pacific | Washington | #9 | L6-13 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Colorado State
1981-1981 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -17.8 • Win % 0.0%
Pacific
1972-1978 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS -7.0 • Win % 50.0%
- Longest tenure
- Pacific • 7 seasons
- Best tenure
- Pacific • -7.0 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Pacific • 50.0%
Style and Strength Profile
Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.
These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.
Overall Strength
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Chester Caddas sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeChester Caddas sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Chester Caddas
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -7.9
- Percentile
- 33th pct
Lower end
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Impact by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
Colorado State
1981-1981 • 0-6
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -17.8Win % 0.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Pacific
1972-1978 • 38-38-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -7.0Win % 50.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.4 during vs 5.0 baseline
+0.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-7.0 during vs -1.5 baseline
-5.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-6.1 during vs -4.5 baseline
-1.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Pacific 1977
6-5 • SRS 1.5
Biggest Improvement
Pacific 1977
6-5 • 25.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Colorado State 1981
0-6 • SP Off 24.9
Best Defensive Season
Pacific 1972
8-3 • SP Def 17.5
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Pacific 1976
2-9 • SRS -23.5
Biggest Drop
Pacific 1976
2-9 • -16.8 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Colorado State | 1981 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | -17.8 | -20.2 | 24.9 | 41.4 | -11.4 | -33.3% | Partial season |
| Pacific | 1978 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -6.4 | -6.7 | 23.8 | 30.0 | -7.9 | -21.2% | Season summary |
| Pacific | 1977 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | 1.5 | -2.1 | 18.9 | 21.0 | +25.0 | +36.4% | Season summary |
| Pacific | 1976 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -23.5 | -23.1 | 14.6 | 35.6 | -16.8 | -27.7% | Season summary |
| Pacific | 1975 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 45.8% | — | — | -6.7 | -2.8 | 24.4 | 27.3 | +1.3 | -8.7% | Season summary |
| Pacific | 1974 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -8.0 | -10.0 | 24.2 | 33.1 | -3.1 | -20.4% | Season summary |
| Pacific | 1973 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | — | — | -4.9 | -2.1 | 22.0 | 24.1 | -4.1 | +2.3% | Season summary |
| Pacific | 1972 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | — | -0.8 | 3.9 | 20.4 | 17.5 | — | — | Season summary |
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